Chapter 119: Invasion by Foreign Enemies
Less than a month after the Red Ant King's Palace was attacked by woodpeckers, news of a large-scale invasion of the Yue Monkey Ant came from the border city of the Red Ant Country.
It turns out that the Yue monkey ant began to infest this area about 500 years ago.
At first, it was just a few scout ants that came to explore the way.
Because of their small size, they have not attracted everyone's attention.
Then swarms of the monkey ants followed, loaded with their eggs and food.
They spend their first night under a large pine tree.
Early the next morning, almost half of the ants were eaten by aardvarks and other anteaters.
The survivors fled to the southeast and built a camping nest next to the Black Ant Clan.
At that time, the Red Ant Empire thought: This is a matter of black ants and Yue monkey ants, and it has nothing to do with us.
There are even those who think that it is not good to let these emaciated monkey ants be bullied by the strong black ants while we stand by and watch.
But the monkey ants were not killed, and they worked hard every day to carry twigs and small Coleopteran insects.
On the contrary, there are fewer and fewer strong black ants......
To this day, people still don't understand what happened.
According to the report of the Red Ant Nation's secret agents, the Yue Monkey Ant has occupied the entire black ant nest, and we even laugh at the Black Ant Clan for deserving it.
Besides, how could such a small ant make the powerful Red Ant Empire afraid?
It's just that after the black ant, the more monkey ant conquered the honeycomb on the rose tree......
Then there was the only remaining termite nest in the south, and finally even the yellow ant nest with poisonous needles was subsumed under the banner of the Yue monkey ant.
According to the refugees who have fled to join the Red Ant Nation's Foreign Legion, the fighting strategy of the Monkey Ants is very powerful.
For example, they extract venom from rare flowers and mix them into cisterns to pollute water sources, thus allowing the virus to spread for the sinister purpose of exterminating other ant tribes and strengthening themselves.
However, they didn't take it seriously, until after the fall of Reccinee last year, when they finally realized what a terrible enemy they were facing.
The Red Ant Army made a fatal mistake by underestimating the Monkey Ant, and similarly, the Monkey Ant underestimated the strength of the Red Ant Army.
Although the city is not large, it is always the territory of the Red Ant Empire.
The day after the joyful celebration of the monkey ants, 180 teams of soldiers and ants, each with 1,200 members, woke them up from their sleep with great fanfare.
Although the success or failure was immediately decided, due to the stubborn resistance of the Yue Monkey Ants, it took the Red Ant Army a whole day to recover the familiar city.
At that time, we learned that the Yue Monkey Ant had placed not one, but 150 queens in Shudi City.
It's jaw-dropping!
The captive Yue monkey ant queen told their history and customs, an extremely strange story.
Once upon a time, the Yue monkey ant lived in another country, thousands of miles away.
The forest scenery of that country is very different from that of the Red Ant Federation, which belongs to the subtropical region.
There are huge fruits, bright and sweet, there is no need to hibernate in winter, and on this paradise, the monkey ants have established the city-state of "Saigon".
The city itself has an ancient history, built with a single kiwi tree attached.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long!
About 800 years ago, the kiwi was uprooted by humans and placed in a wooden box with the surrounding soil.
The ant tried to escape, but the crate was placed in a large, rigid structure.
The monkey ants climbed to the edge of the structure, but one by one they fell into the water.
The salty water is vast and boundless.
Many of them tried to swim back to their ancestral lands, but unfortunately they were wiped out.
Most of the ants decided to forget about it and had to find a way to survive in this large structure surrounded by salt water.
In this way, many days passed in a blink of an eye.
Thanks to their special organs, they find themselves traversing unimaginably long distances at such speeds.
They pass through hundreds of geocentric magnetic barriers, where is this thing going to take them?
They are unloaded here with kiwis.
They discovered the world, full of exotic flora and fauna.
They were disappointed by the new environment they had come to far from home.
The fruits, flowers, and insects are much smaller and less showy.
The monkey ants left the familiar rainforest and came to an unfamiliar temperate region.
The world has changed color in their eyes.
There is also heavy snow and cold winds in winter.
The more monkey ants first came up with various ways to keep out the cold.
Two of the most effective methods are sugar on the body and a slimy fluid secreted by snails.
In terms of sugar production, they collect fructose from strawberries, mangoes, watermelons, grapes and cherries.
As for fats and oils, they launched a campaign to eradicate native snails.
In addition to this, they have some very bizarre behavior - the fertile class does not have wings and therefore does not "cross the tail".
The females mate and lay their eggs in the underground of the city.
There is not just one fertile female ant in each of the more than one female ant, but hundreds of them. Amazing!
This custom gives them important advantages – in addition to having a much higher birth rate than red ants, and being less likely to be extinct than red ants.
Because as long as the queen is killed, the Red Ant Kingdom is as if it will be decapitated.
As long as there is still a fertile child alive, the city-state can be revived.
For conquering territory, the monkey ant also has another set of logical thinking.
Red ants take advantage of the opportunity to fly as far as they can, and only after landing on the ground can they form an alliance with the Federation to form a large empire.
This is not the case with the Monkey Ant, which is based on its central city-state and gradually expands outward.
Even the short stature of the monkey ant is a trump card, as long as a small number of calories can maintain a rapid mental response, and there is also a certain amount of action.